Panettone & Moscato

You know it’s the holiday season when Panettone decorates store windows, store displays and your instagram. I tried to make Panettone myself, and it turned out quite good, if I may say so myself. You can get the recipe here.

My sources tell me that for the holidays, a popular combination is Panettone & Moscato! Doesn’t sound half bad, right?

Panettone

2018.12.03 Recipe Panettone Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 8 tbs butter
  • 2 large eggs
  • 3 large egg yolks
  • 3 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 cup whole milk
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup dried currants, soaked in warm water for 1 hour and drained
  • Grated zest of 2 oranges
  • Grated zest of 1 lemon
  • 1/2 ts baking soda

2018.12 Piemontegirl making Panettone

Here’s what do to:

  1. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, cream the butter with the eggs and yolks until pale yellow, about 4 minutes
  2. Switch to the dough hook, and with the mixer running, add half of the flour. Add half of the milk and mix for 1 minute.
  3. Add the remainder of the flour, followed by the remainder of the milk and then all of the sugar. Mix for 20 minutes.
  4. Preheat oven to 425 degrees farenheit. Butter and flour the panettone mold (or deek cake pan).
  5. Spread the dough out into a rough square on a floured work surface. Sprinkel with the currants, orange & lemon zest, and baking soda, and knead for 5-10 minutes.
  6. Place in the pan or mold, bake for 35 to 45 minutes. The top will be cracked. Unmold the cake onto a rack. invert and allow to cool.

 

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A Cascina Nuova Christmas

Cascina Nuova: A Corino Christmas Night

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I love Christmas, and as you can see Cascina Nuova is now all ready for Christmas. And how perfect is Giovanni Corino‘s wine for Christmas? The red label goes great with the Christmas colors!

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Early December we had a sort of Christmas Party with food and baking and wine. My danish friend made some delicious danish cookies for us, and a really nice danish christmas meal. I love having such an international friend group; you get introduced to so many different foods and traditions. In addition to my danish friend, there was my dear friend from Bangladesh, a good friend from Canada and a new friend from Russia! Talk about diverse group of girls!

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Check out my amazing baking skills! And my beautiful santa hat! See the glitter? This hat was bought at a mall in Pennsylvania when I was maybe 6 years old, and has been my favorite head wear ever since! Anyone have any Christmas traditions or favorite parts of the holidays?

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Cookies & Cream Cheesecake

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You need: 900g cream cheese, 36 oreo cookies, 5 tbsp butter, 2.3 dl milk, 70ml sugar, 1 plate gelatin.

  1. Separate the cookies, and put the cookie in a zip loc bag and the cream in a pot.
  2. Smash the cookies in the zip loc bag until completely crushed.  (Set a little bit aside for the top of the cake). Add the butter (melted) and stir. Pour into the cake form and pat down to make the crust of the cake.
  3. In a pot, put the cream cheese, sugar and cookie cream. Blend together it’s while melting. This will become the cake filling. On the side, mix the gelatin with the milk (warmed up). Add this to the pot with the cake filing.
  4. Once it has reached boiling point, pour it into the cake form. On the top, add a little of the cookie crumble.
  5. Put in the fridge for 4+ hours.

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The recipe is from AniFood